ABOUT THIS BOOKContains thirteen essays by Lawrence Dewan on metaphysics, the vision of reality from the viewpoint of being.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents
Introduction
Abbreviations
1. What Is Metaphysics?
2. What Does It Mean to Study Being ?as Being??
3. St. Thomas and the Seed of Metaphysics
4. St. Thomas, Physics, and the Principle of Metaphysics
5. St. Thomas and the Principle of Causality
6. St. Thomas and Analogy: The Logician and the Metaphysician
7. The Importance of Substance
8. St. Thomas, Metaphysics, and Formal Causality
9. St. Thomas, Metaphysical Procedure, and the Formal Cause
10. St. Thomas, Form, and Incorruptibility
11. St. Thomas and the Distinction Between Form and Esse in Caused Things
12. Nature as a Metaphysical Object
13. The Individual as a Mode of Being According to Thomas Aquinas
Index

Contains thirteen essays by Lawrence Dewan on metaphysics, the vision of reality from the viewpoint of being.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents
Introduction
Abbreviations
1. What Is Metaphysics?
2. What Does It Mean to Study Being ?as Being??
3. St. Thomas and the Seed of Metaphysics
4. St. Thomas, Physics, and the Principle of Metaphysics
5. St. Thomas and the Principle of Causality
6. St. Thomas and Analogy: The Logician and the Metaphysician
7. The Importance of Substance
8. St. Thomas, Metaphysics, and Formal Causality
9. St. Thomas, Metaphysical Procedure, and the Formal Cause
10. St. Thomas, Form, and Incorruptibility
11. St. Thomas and the Distinction Between Form and Esse in Caused Things
12. Nature as a Metaphysical Object
13. The Individual as a Mode of Being According to Thomas Aquinas
Index